"I wasn't much on comin' over here because of all th' kneelin' and gettin' up and down and all, but we like it."~Uncle Billy in At Home in Mitford
"For the next quarter hour I was busy juggling hymnal, service leaflet, and a black-bound Book of Common Prayer, which for the lady in the black straw hat seemed to open mystically at the proper place for the different responses. There were times when people stood, which we imitated, and times when they knelt, which we did not. At last the minister---"rector," the leaflet called him---mounted a handsome carved-oak pulpit to the right of the carved screen, and we settled back for a respite from a very athletic style of worship."~from Elizabeth Sherrill's All the Way to Heaven
Both quotes make me laugh. Elizabeth Sherrill and her husband later joined that Episcopal church (which they'd never been a part of), loving the liturgy and the church itself.
I concur. Yet thankful that there's an Anglican version, very conservative, as opposed to the Episcopal one which has sort of gone by the wayside. The very wayside.
(photo from a free online source)
